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Critical practices in architecture : the unexamined / Jonathan Y Bean; Susannah Dickinson; Aletheia Ida; Jane Rendell

Embraces the idea that in today's complex world, multiple, emerging perspectives are critical to the design fields, the ...

David Chipperfield Architects = Architektur und Baudetails : Architecture and Construction Details / Sandra Hofmeister

De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period The Authors of the Commentaries

This book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take ...

Design Patterns in Modern C++20 : Reusable Approaches for Object-Oriented Software Design / Dmitri Nesteruk

As well as covering traditional design patterns, this book fleshes out new design patterns and approaches that will be useful ...

Diagrid structures : systems, connections, details / Terri Meyer Boake

Diagrids are load-bearing structures made of steel diagonal grids. They were first used in the great buildings of the turn ...

EigenArchitecture / Ludger Hovestadt, Vera Bühlmann

A path out of the technological and economical excesses in contemporary architecture:A book on research and education in ...

English Grammar Essentials For Dummies / Wendy M. Anderson, Geraldine Woods

Covers the vital essentials needed for better written communication Serves as an excellent refresher course for professionals ...

Extensionalism : The Revolution in Logic

This vivid and thought-provoking book by the Israeli logician Nimrod Bar-Am impels one to rethink the place of logic in Western ...

FOBA

The book also chronicles the FOB Homes systema FOBA subsidiary company established in 1999a uniquely creative response to ...

Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam

This book approaches the anxieties inherent in food consumption and production in Vietnam. The country’s rapid and recent ...

Formalization of Banking Supervision : 19th–20th Centuries / Eiji HotoriMikael WendschlagThibaud Giddey

Elaborate the formalization phase of banking supervision in eight developed countries—USA, Japan, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, ...

Forming the Mind

The book collects essays from some of the foremost scholars in a relatively new and very promising field of research. It ...

Freedom and Value : Freedom’s Influence on Welfare and Worldly Value

Freedom of the sort implicated in acting freely or with free will is important to the truth of different sorts of moral judgment, ...

From Summetria to Symmetry: The Making of a Revolutionary Scientific Concept

The concept of symmetry is inherent to modern science, and its evolution has a complex history that richly exemplifies the ...

Global History and New Polycentric Approaches

This book It examines how the discipline had evolved in various historiographies, from Anglo Saxon to southern European, ...

Global History with Chinese Characteristics Autocratic States along the Silk Road in the Decline of the Spanish and Qing Empires 1680-1796

This book examines perceptions and dialogues between China and Europe by analysing strategic geopolitical sites which fostered ...

Handbook of Education Policy Studies School/University, Curriculum, and Assessment, Volume 2

This handbook brings together the latest research from a wide range of internationally influential scholars to analyze educational ...

Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century In and Beyond the Asylum

This book contributes a new dimension to the study of mental health and psychiatry in the twentieth century. It takes the ...

Herbal Medicine in India : Indigenous Knowledge, Practice, Innovation and its Value / Saikat Sen, Raja Chakraborty

Covers Indian herbal medicines, health products, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and cosmetics Highlights the status quo ...

Iberian World Empires and the Globalization of Europe 1415–1668

This book analyses Iberian expansion by using knowledge accumulated in recent years to test some of the most important theories ...